Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) official, Benedict Moyo has said that two of his colleagues have been tasked with negotiating with Gumbo. The men given the job of trying to lure the coach away from his Botswana base are ZIFA president, Cuthbert Dube and his vice, Ndumiso Gumede. "Yes it is true that we are looking at appointing a new coach and Rahman (Gumbo) is one of the candidates we are targeting. He has a high success rate in terms of performance so we believe he could be the right man for the job," Moyo told Mmegi Sport yesterday.
The Warriors have been without a substantive coach after Sunday Chidzambwa quit to join South Africa's Free State Stars last year. ZIFA's efforts to replace Chidzambwa with former Namibia coach, Tom Saintfiet late last year hit a snag after the Belgian failed to get a work permit. The association courted United States-based coach Charles Mhlauri but his financial demands proved too much. The development leaves Gumbo as the front-runner for the Warriors' hot seat he occupied before his unceremonious sacking in 2005.
